Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna St. Vincent Millay

You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow I know that your feeling for me, however slight it is, is of the nature of love... When you tell me to come, I will come, by the next train, just as I am. This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness; know that it is a proud surrender to You.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Edgar Winter

I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.

Edgar Lee Masters

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

Edgar Guest

All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

Edgar Guest

Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.

Benjamin Franklin

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

Benjamin Franklin

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Benjamin Franklin

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Benjamin Franklin

god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!

Benjamin Franklin

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Benjamin Franklin

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

Benjamin Franklin

How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

Benjamin Franklin

Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

Benjamin Franklin

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

Benjamin Franklin

Love well, whip well.

Benjamin Franklin

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.